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Rogers, AR - Long Version) C Seattle aP cific nivU ersity Digital Commons @ SPU C. William Pollard Papers Work and Faith June 9th, 2005 Etched in Stone, Engraved on the Heart (Rogers, AR - Long Version) C. William Pollard Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/pollard_papers Part of the Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Christianity Commons, and the Leadership Studies Commons Recommended Citation Pollard, C. William, "Etched in Stone, Engraved on the Heart (Rogers, AR - Long Version)" (2005). C. William Pollard Papers. 132. https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/pollard_papers/132 This Speech is brought to you for free and open access by the Work and Faith at Digital Commons @ SPU. It has been accepted for inclusion in C. William Pollard Papers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ SPU. CEO Summit: Purposeful Leadership Soderquist Center / Promise Keepers Rogers, Arkansas June 9, 2005 C. William Pollard “Etched in Stone, Engraved on the Heart” I am delighted to be with you tonight and participate in this opening session of the CEO Summit on Leadership. Over the years, Don Soderquist and I have shared a lot of experiences together. He is my brother-in-law and my friend. In the early years, we lived in the same town, went to the same church, and raised our families together. Although I began my career as an attorney, later in life we both found ourselves in leadership roles in public companies, and we share some of the same views about business as a calling and the importance of seeking to integrate the claims of our faith with the demands of our work. As I share with you tonight from some of my experiences, I have not come with all the answers. However, I may have faced some of the questions you are facing or walked down some of the roads that you may be traveling. In my journey, I have found that understanding the question was often more important than knowing all the answers. CEO Summit – long version 1 June 9, 2005 Soderquist Center As I say this, I am reminded of a greeting that a friend of mine has on his voice mail and answering machine. It simply says the following: “Hello. This is not an answering machine, it is a questioning machine. There are really only two questions that are relevant: who are you and what do you want? Please give your answer at the tone.” As we come here tonight at the beginning of this summit on purposeful leadership, how would we answer these questions? Who are we and what do we want? All of us here have some leadership responsibilities. Some of us have the initials CEO after our name. We often identify who we are by our job or title. Is that who we really are? What do we want out of this conference – out of the Promise Keeper sessions that will follow – out of our business – from our families – from our faith? What really is leadership all about? Books and articles on leadership and on the qualities of a good leader abound. They often describe leadership as something that is glamorous and elevated. But you know, I have found it to be hard work that is sometimes mundane, unromantic, and boring. Its essence is performance. Leadership is not by itself good or desirable. Leadership is a means. To what end is the crucial question. Leadership is not about you or about me, it is about the people who follow and the direction we are leading them. It is about the responsibility we assume for the growth and development of those people. As we look at leadership this way, it CEO Summit – long version 2 June 9, 2005 Soderquist Center is imperative for us as leaders to know what we believe and why we believe it; to know where we are headed and why it is important for people to follow; to understand who people are and why they work and not just what they do and how they do it; to live and share our faith in a way that will engage people and not use our position to impose our faith; to be an example in our private and public life of the Lord we love. During the last several years, there have been numerous articles and books written on the subject of a growing interest in spiritual issues in business. One of those books was written by a Nobel Prize winning economics professor from the University of Chicago. In his book entitled The Fourth Great Awakening, Robert Fogel traces, from pre-Revolutionary War days to modern times, the various religious awakenings in America and their impact on our society and economy. He concludes that one of the greatest issues in our society and the world of business today is a lack of a consensus of moral authority and a lack of what he refers to as a distribution of spiritual assets. Here is an economics professor – a Nobel Prize winner – calling for more channels in the market place for the distribution of spiritual assets. CEO Summit – long version 3 June 9, 2005 Soderquist Center In light of the events of the last several years raising questions of integrity, character, and ethics in business, the issue before us as business leaders, as leaders of faith, is whether the firms we lead can not only make money and create wealth but also be moral communities for the development of human character. Communities where it is okay to raise the question of God. As I have now retired from my leadership responsibilities at ServiceMaster and look back, I can add up the numbers that show growth in profits, customers served, and a return for our shareholders on average of 20% per year. While these figures are part of a normal business assessment of performance, the conclusion for me cannot be limited to these money or value-creation measurements. The real and lasting measurement is whether the results of my leadership can be seen in the changed and improved lives of people I have led. As a business leader, I wanted to excel at generating profits and creating value for shareholders. If I didn’t want to play by these rules, I didn’t belong in the ballgame. But I also tried to encourage an environment where the work place could be an open community where the question of a person’s moral and spiritual development and the existence of God and how one related the claims of his or her faith with the demands of their work were issues of discussion, debate and, yes, CEO Summit – long version 4 June 9, 2005 Soderquist Center even learning and understanding. I considered the people of our firm as, in fact, the soul of the firm. My experience confirmed Peter Drucker’s conclusions: that people work for a cause not just a living and that mission and purpose were important organizing and sustaining principles for the firm. Our corporate objectives at ServiceMaster were simply stated: To honor God in all we do; To help people develop; To pursue excellence; and To grow profitably. Those first two objectives were end goals; the second two were means goals. We did not use that first objective as a basis of exclusion. It was, in fact, the reason for our promotion of diversity as we recognized that different people with different beliefs were all part of God’s mix. It did not mean that everything was done right. We experienced our share of mistakes. We sometimes failed and did things wrong. But because of a stated standard and a reason for that standard, we could not hide our mistakes. Mistakes were regularly flushed out in the open for correction and, in some cases, for forgiveness and leaders could not protect themselves at the expense of those they were leading. CEO Summit – long version 5 June 9, 2005 Soderquist Center The process of seeking understanding and application of these objectives at all levels of the organization was a never-ending task. It involved matters of the heart as well as the head and it was not susceptible to standard management techniques of implementation or measurement. While at times it was discouraging, it also was energizing as one realized the continuing potential for creativity and innovation, as there was a focus on the development of the whole person. One of the best ways that I found to share and lead in the development of our firm as a moral community was to seek to serve as I led and to reflect the principle that Jesus taught His disciples as He washed their feet - that no leader was greater or had a self-interest more important than those being led. In seeking to so serve, the truth of what I said could be measured by what I did. My ethic would become a reality as I was able to serve those I led. Servant leadership has been a learning experience for me. It has not come naturally. The first thing I had to understand was what it meant to walk in the shoes of those I would lead. This was a lesson that I would learn as I first joined the ServiceMaster team, now over 28 years ago. CEO Summit – long version 6 June 9, 2005 Soderquist Center My predecessors in the business, Ken Hansen, who was then Chairman of the Company, and Ken Wessner, who was then President and CEO of the Company, were both involved in recruiting me to join the firm. They wanted me to come and initially head up the legal and financial affairs of the Company, reporting directly to Ken Wessner.
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